emily (em) van loan
they/them
EDUCATION
M.F.A. in Art Practices
University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO
B.A. in Cinema, B.S. in Integrative Neuroscience
Binghamton University, Vestal, NY
EXHIBITIONS
2024 Mientras tanto CINE, Uruguay
Wide Open Experimental Film Festival, Oklahoma City, OK
Ribalta Experimental Film Festival, Vignola, Italy
Film Diary NYC, Brooklyn, New York
2023 Opposite Flow, Istanbul, Turkey
Pleasure Dome, Toronto
Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest, London
Light Field, San Francisco, CA
Artifact Film Festival, Calgary, Canada
2022 Film Diary NYC, New York, New York
TRANÅS AT THE FRINGE, Tranås, Sweden
Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Winnipeg, Canada
DELETE TV 2022 Season, London, UK
Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, OH
Fisura, International Festival of Experimental Film & Video, Mexico
the story of you and me Group Show at Union Hall Gallery, Denver, CO
Moviate Underground Film Festival, Harrisburg, PA
Wide Open Experimental Film Festival, Oklahoma City, OK
2021 XPRMNTL anti-festival, London, England
Flaherty NYC, Microscope Gallery, New York, NY
CROSSROADS, San Francisco, CA
Mimesis Documentary Film Festival, Boulder, CO
The 8 Fest, Toronto, Canada
Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Winnipeg, Canada
Mirror, Mirror Group Exhibition, Union Hall Gallery, Denver, CO
Peripheries: Experimental Film and Video Festival, Boston, MA
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI
2020 Spectral Film Festival, Stevens Point, WI
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Milwaukee, WI
Pungnant Film Series Winter Edition, Athens, Greece
Revolutions Per Minute Film Festival, Boston, MA
VASTLAB Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA
Transient Visions: Festival of the Moving Image, Johnson City, NY
Darkroom Film Festival, London, UK
Concordia Film Festival, Montreal, Canada
2019 Kinoshop—Analog Experimental Film Festival, Belgrade, Serbia
Lino Kino Public Access Installation, Philadelphia, PA
SEFF Binghamton, Binghamton, NY
Streams and Channels, Peekskill, NY
2018 Unseen Film Festival, Denver, CO
Montreal Underground Film Festival, Montreal, Canada
Yale Student Film Festival, New Haven, CT
Pugnant Film Series, Athens, Greece
2017 SEFF Binghamton, Binghamton, NY
Altered Esthetics Film Festival, Minneapolis, MN
2016 SEFF Binghamton, Binghamton, NY
FILMOGRAPHY
2023 if there is sunshine, it is beautiful VHS, 8:45
kill_ur_rapist.jpg 16mm, 4:30
TRIPLE LOADERS 16mm, 3:30
Based on a True Story digital video, 2:54
TAKE – A – SECRET, LEAVE – A – SECRET installation, 10’x12’x7’
2021 T4T 16mm transferred to digital, 2:36
the tender place where the world breaks digital transfer of 16mm, super 8mm, 12:51
HRDPF: A Brief Rendering 16mm, 2:34
2020 compulsory heterosexuality 16mm transferred to digital, 6:02
53 Dogwood Rd. video installation, 12’x12’x8’
2019 Who Wants to Fall in Love? super 8mm, 6:06
A Watched Cunt Never Cums 16mm, 3:01
In Collaboration 16mm, 5:43
Van Loan, et al., 2019 digital video, 9:39
Oneiric Premonition #1 performance with super 8mm projections, variable duration
2017 Fool(ed) 16mm, 7:48
2016 I Can’t Go Home Again 16mm, 1:38
Conversations with… digital video, 3:25
why to hook hurt ends 16mm, 1:24
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Continuing Instructor – Colorado State University
Experimental Video (Fall 2023 – Present)
Foundations: Time and Structure (Fall 2023 – Present)
Adjunct Instructor – Colorado State University
Foundations: Time and Structure (Fall 2022 – Spring 2023)
Adjunct Instructor – University of Colorado Boulder
Advanced Analog Alchemy (Spring 2022)
Analog Alternatives (Fall 2021 – Spring 2022)
Graduate Instructor – University of Colorado Boulder
Moving Image Foundations (Fall 2020 – Spring 2021)
Teaching Assistant – University of Colorado Boulder
Women and Film (Summer 2019 & Summer 2020)
Film History (Fall 2018 – Spring 2020)
PROGRAMMING AND CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
2023 Co-curator of Assigned, Faculty Exhibition at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
2019 – 2021 Co-Director at maybe blue, DIY art space, Boulder, CO